I have been checking out the new LDS Family History Library website,http://www.familysearch.org , and have discovered how to obtain a list of
all the villages in the canton of Bern (BE) for which data is in the
"Catalog." I will include the entire 462 village list below. I also
discovered that unless you have the "exact" spelling for your village, you
will not be able to bring up the data, since there is not a way to try
spelling variations (that I know of). Therefore, you can peruse the list
and look for your village that sounds "similar" to one you are looking for.
Then you can use the "exact" spelling (copy and paste into the search box)
in order to get more data about the village.

There are also a few warnings (5 in fact) I will mention before you go
searching for your ancestral village.

WARNING #1
It is best to copy and paste the entire line for the whole village in the
list below, otherwise, the search engine might not find it. Drag your
cursor over the line, then use Ctrl C keys (pressed at the same time) to
copy and Ctrl V to paste.

WARNING #2
Not all villages will have had their parish registers microfilmed, but may
have had a history written about them or a notarial, civil, or other record,
etc., filmed and is contained in the FHL Catalog, which can be searched at:http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchcatalog.asp

Of course we are always hopeful that a parish register is available as the
primary source of our ancestors.

The exact web address (URL), to show the canton Bern data, for all villages
within the LDS FHL Catalog, is at the end of this message. Use the Ctrl End
keys to jump to the bottom of this message and the Ctrl Home keys to jump
back to the beginning.

WARNING #4
When I transferred the data, into this message, some of the villages with
more than one word in them got grouped together. I have manually gone
through the list and tried to separate all I could find, but I might have
missed some. So, if you see something like, LePeuchapatte, which has 2
capital letters in it, then you must separate them in order for the search
engine to find the village.

WARNING #5
The original village list included the special characters, such as, ü - u
umlaut. The diacritics will NOT work in the search engine. You need to
take them out and use the standard alphabet character. For example, if I
did a search for Zürich, no data will be found, BUT if I search on Zurich,
then it finds the data and lists it as Zürich.

So, with the list below, I have modified all village names to be WITHOUT the
diacritical characters. For example: from Lützelflüh to Lutzelfluh

I must mention one exception to the above rules. If you are looking for
Courtemaîche, then you will have to enter: Courtemai^che and NOT:
Courtemaiche. Don't ask me why it is like this.

Here is the list of villages in which I changed their name from "with
special characters" to "standard alphabet characters":

FINALLY, the list you have been waiting for:
====The List of 462 villages which are in the FHL Catalog as of 3 June
99========
Copy and paste the entire village name into the search field, otherwise it
will not be found.